Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation

The aim of this study is to diagnose students’ difficulties in learning binary operation and its properties. A test consisting of 16 open-ended questions is applied to 74 students studying in the Department of primary school education of Agri Education Faculty at Ataturk University, Turkey. In ad...

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Main Authors:	Enver Tatar, Ramazan Dikici
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Published:	Penerbit ukm 2006
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1824/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1824/

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spelling	ukm-18242011-06-14T07:43:09Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1824/ Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation Enver Tatar, Ramazan Dikici , The aim of this study is to diagnose students’ difficulties in learning binary operation and its properties. A test consisting of 16 open-ended questions is applied to 74 students studying in the Department of primary school education of Agri Education Faculty at Ataturk University, Turkey. In addition to this, a semi-structured interview is applied to fifteen students to understand their learning difficulties clearly. The results indicate that the distributive and associative properties of binary operations have not been learned in the conceptual level and so students have more difficulty in these properties. It is also found that students have more difficulties in operations with the rules than those with the table Penerbit ukm 2006-07 Article PeerReviewed Enver Tatar, and Ramazan Dikici , (2006) Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation. Journal of Quality Measurement and Analysis, 2 (1). pp. 91-102. ISSN 1823-5670 http://www.ukm.my/~ppsmfst/jqma/index.html
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description	The aim of this study is to diagnose students’ difficulties in learning binary operation and its properties. A test consisting of 16 open-ended questions is applied to 74 students studying in the Department of primary school education of Agri Education Faculty at Ataturk University, Turkey. In addition to this, a semi-structured interview is applied to fifteen students to understand their learning difficulties clearly. The results indicate that the distributive and associative properties of binary operations have not been learned in the conceptual level and so students have more difficulty in these properties. It is also found that students have more difficulties in operations with the rules than those with the table
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title	Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation
title_short	Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation
title_full	Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation
title_fullStr	Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation
title_full_unstemmed	Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation
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Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation

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